Elson Street, Staten Island: Grade C+ · 311 & City Data
Grade C+, 51 out of 100. How does Elson Street in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 51 out of 100.
Calm 72, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 13, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but little within a walk.
That puts Elson Street in the top 48% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (92) and tree cover (46). Transit (1) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Elson Street, with 33 reports. Across every category, 34 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 97% of them name illegal parking. Behind it sits blocked driveway, with 10 reports. In all, 20 distinct 311 categories are represented on Elson Street. Divided by the homes on file, Elson Street carries roughly 31 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on Elson Street holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. PLUTO counts 79 residential buildings and 108 homes on Elson Street, with 0 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
No one has been injured in a reported crash here since 2021.
Against quiet residential streets, cleanliness comes in at 86, with parking at 45. Elson Street sits in the weaker half of quiet residential streets on parking. Quietness ranks 77 on the same scale, with infrastructure at 53. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 12 and transit at 1. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 46. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,970 quiet residential streets.
Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 92.
Of the 108 homes on file, none are rent-stabilized.
Scores are built from 311 complaints, HPD violations, NYPD crash records, NYPD felony complaint records, MTA stop locations, DOHMH food permits, and the street tree census, divided by the homes and businesses on the street, updated weekly. Read the scoring method or the data sources.
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Elson Street runs through New Springville, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Staten Island, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Brooklyn vs Staten Island: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).